disable/catch swipe event for a panel

Another question for you all- I've got a div being loaded in through contentEl with a slideshow in it that uses swipe motions to change images. The panel it's being loaded into however, is part of a carousel and the swipes begin to get confused on tablet devices and both try to scroll at once, which naturally makes things stop working or look bad.
Is there a way to catch the swipe/drag event for a panel and stop it while the slideshow is the component being touched? Possibly through "onMouseDown" then "onMouseUp" events through the slideshow or something?